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In this paper, we present an exploratory study towards developing a Software Agility Assessment Model, to fill the gap of a structured assessment model in the field. The purpose of the model is to assess organizations’ or projects’ agility and provide roadmaps to organizations in the continuous improvement path. The model has two dimensions with a similar structure to ISO/IEC 15504: agility dimension and aspect dimension. We performed an exploratory case study to identify the improvement opportunities for the draft model and discussed the results.
This study has been supported by Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), Project 113E528 in 2014.
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Top, Ö.Ö., Demirörs, O. (2014). Assessing Software Agility: An Exploratory Case Study. In: Mitasiunas, A., Rout, T., O’Connor, R.V., Dorling, A. (eds) Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination. SPICE 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 477. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13036-1_18
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